# Crash when trying to download anything

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/crash-when-trying-to-download-anything/588455>\
**Category:** Desktop Support\
**Tags:** windows, crash\
**Created:** [December 24, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/crash-when-trying-to-download-anything/588455 "2024-12-24T01:11:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![NukaW0rld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f08c70/32.png) [@NukaW0rld](https://community.brave.app/u/NukaW0rld)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/crash-when-trying-to-download-anything/588455/1 "2024-12-24T01:11:46Z")

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Hey everyone. Just about 2 weeks ago, whenever I try to download anything, my Brave browser would crash out. Is anyone having similar issue?

Current Brave version: 1.73.104

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**Author:** ![289wk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/439d5e/32.png) [@289wk](https://community.brave.app/u/289wk)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/crash-when-trying-to-download-anything/588455/2 "2025-01-04T23:26:22Z")

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Please edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, to incude Brave Browser version numbers.

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Please **Download all Three Test Files** and report the success or failure of each:

MP4 - select the 1MB file:

> [https://onlinetestcase.com/mp4-file](https://onlinetestcase.com/mp4-file)

A simple text (TXT) file. The contents are one word: ‘test’:

> [testFile.txt](https://community.brave.app/uploads/short-url/o9Crlt3rLRVUnCwprCtih1kVEj1.txt) (4 Bytes)

A simple PDF file, courtesy of [W3C](https://www.w3.org/):

> ‘[https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf](https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf)’

These are all simple files - not heavyweight - and should not cause Brave Browser to stumble.

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> **[How do I manually submit crash reports?](https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/22281484910221-How-do-I-manually-submit-crash-reports)**
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> If you have disabled the Automatically send diagnostic reports in Brave and experience a browser crash, you can still manually submit individual crash reports to us for our developers to review. To...

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Brave Browser (Windows OS) user’s toolbox - wherein you may find something that works:

> “[Browser Slow Typing Bogged Down - #3 by 289wk](https://community.brave.app/t/browser-slow-typing-bogged-down/531038/3)”

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/crash-when-trying-to-download-anything/588455/3 "2025-02-03T23:27:08Z")

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